Slides from presentation at the workshop "Archives in Digital Age", 24-25.9.2015 in National Archives of the Czech Republic

1. ARCHIVEMATICA IN CZECH
LIBRARIES
TESTING ARCHIVEMATICA IN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITAL PRESERVATION
EFFORTS OF THE CZECH LIBRARIES
Marek Melichar
Charles University Computing Center
marek.melichar@ruk.cuni.cz
National Archive of the Czech Republic, 24. September 2015

2. Agenda
Marek Melichar, Archivematica in Czech Libraries, 24.09.2015
1. Open Source in LTP generally
2. Open Source and community developed SW
in Czech Libraries
3. Motivation to take up Archivematica
4. LTP Pilot project
5. ProArc project
6. ArcLib project plans

3. 1. OS in the context of LTP
Marek Melichar, Archivematica in Czech Libraries, 24.09.2015
 Bit level preservation tools (fixity and hash libraries,
monitoring tools, backup tools, etc)
 Format related tools (Jhove, Droid, Fido, Fits, Jpylyzer, Tikka,
etc.)
 Data creation and harvest tools (scanning tools, harvesters,
etc.)
 Metadata open standards (Mets, Mods, Premis, Mix, TextMD
other) and tools (parsers etc)
 Open and community developed standards and best
practices (global or local – from OAIS to NDL standard –
metadata + jp2000 profile)
 Community maintained information (formats related
information infrastructure, etc)
 Community financed research (result in usable tools or
standards E-ARK, Scape, and many other)

4. 1. OS in the context of LTP
Marek Melichar, Archivematica in Czech Libraries, 24.09.2015
TRUST?
•Standards
•Peer review
•Public documentation
•Exit strategy
•Audit > certification
….and more

5. 2. Czech Libraries and OS
Marek Melichar, Archivematica in Czech Libraries, 24.09.2015
 ILS
 Discovery
 Repository systems
 Learning systems
 Heritage data
 Kramerius
 Digitization infrastructure (RD.CZ, URN.NBN
resolver, ProArc, book covers, special collections
– maps, etc)
 WA

6. 3. Motivation
Marek Melichar, Archivematica in Czech Libraries, 24.09.2015
Motivations to take up Archivematica and test it?
 Why now?
 Why Archivematica?

7. 4. LTP Pilot project
Marek Melichar, Archivematica in Czech Libraries, 24.09.2015
 09/2014 -10/2015
 Financed from Development Fund of CESNET
 Lead by MUNI
 Moravian Library + external consultants

8. 4. LTP Pilot project
Marek Melichar, Archivematica in Czech Libraries, 24.09.2015
Goals
 Hands on experience with Archivematica
 Integration with the CESNET storage
 Create knowledge base
 Motivate interest, popularize LTP

9. 4. LTP Pilot project
Marek Melichar, Archivematica in Czech Libraries, 24.09.2015
Create knowledge base
 System admin. manuals
 Storage integration recommendation
 Curators documentation
 Report from testing some collections
 OAIS compliance evaluation report

10. 4. LTP Pilot project
Marek Melichar, Archivematica in Czech Libraries, 24.09.2015
Lower the barrier to LTP
 LTP portal
 Popular articles
 Brian Lavoie OAIS intro in Czech
 Conference participation

11. 4. LTP Pilot project
Marek Melichar, Archivematica in Czech Libraries, 24.09.2015
How to motivate libraries to take up
Archivematica?
Zuckerbrot
 Benefits vs Costs
Peitsche
 Obligation

12. 5. ProArc project
Marek Melichar, Archivematica in Czech Libraries, 24.09.2015
 Financed from NAKI in project Czech Digital
Library
 Digitization workflow management system
 2015 Proof of concept
 Integration with Archivematica
 Import the packages from production to
Archivematica
 Create Archivematica AIPs
 Get back into production system the info about
archived package
 Update package in ProArc and resubmit to
Archivematica

13. 6. ArcLib project
Marek Melichar, Archivematica in Czech Libraries, 24.09.2015
 Submitted to NAKI call for projects
 Academy of sciences library, Moravian library, MUNI,
NL CR + external consultants
 2016 on for 4 years
Goals:
 Build LTP solution tailored for Czech heritage libraries
on the Archivematica core
 LTP policies and documentation recommendations,
maybe set up local audit process
 Storage level and bit level preservation
recommendations

14. References
Marek Melichar, Archivematica in Czech Libraries, 24.09.2015
 LTP Portal http://bit.ly/ltp-portal
 DU Cesnet https://du.cesnet.cz/
 ProArc http://www.czechdigitallibrary.cz/proarc/
 ArcLib
 NDL project http://www.ndk.cz/
Other recommended links
http://dsa.cuni.cz/
http://www.digitalpreservation.cz/

15. Marek Melichar, Archivematica in Czech Libraries, 24.09.2015
Thank you!
MAILTO: MAREK.MELICHAR@RUK.CUNI.CZ